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This two-minute short film from Scopitone features actress Joi Lansing singing Trapped in the Web of Love.

A dance performance salute to choreographer-dancer Lester Horton with Alvin Ailey, Carmen de Lavallade and James Truitte, all former members of his company. They perform various works by Horton.

Screen Test of Edie Sedgwick and Kipp Stagg (aka Bima Stagg).

Woman sitting in a chair.

Amid an atmosphere of constant casual sex, a drug addict spirals downward.

Recruiting film for RAF ground personnel.

With light only shedding on half of her face, Mary Woronov remains calm and stern as she stares into the camera, until the very end, where she sheds a slight smile.

Takes place entirely during a meal (a family meal of course) which lasts from the year 1870 to the present. As history accelerates the structure of the family disintegrates.

A man meets a woman who invites him back to her place. What he doesn't realize is that she's a twin.

Harry Partch and his ensemble perform a dramatized account of riding the rails during the Depression on a transcontinental hobo trip from California to Chicago.

A joyful portrait of Taylor Mead’s visit to Stockholm

Two aspiring Italian actors, hoping to become movie stars, dream of moving to New York City to study at the Actors Studio. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

"A tribute to overwhelming nature, this film is rich in both color and sound. A combination of original footage and images from children's books, text books, etc." –B. C.

How can we improve our ability to judge other people. Set in mainly a corporate environment addressing hiring managers. It features some great footage of rookie Willy Davis and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Morning begins with performers dressing and preparing for their day to the accompaniment of clashing male and female internal monologues, and subsequently depicts various characters going about their daily business while we listen in on their thoughts and anxieties.

A private detective attempts to find a con on the lam by questioning a series of frequently-nude women.

Serialized in Aliwan Komiks.

Ponto e Vírgula is a tension-filled experimental film that gives over the anxiety and mental instability of those living in post AI-5 Brazil. Closed doors, long light-filled hallways (reminiscent of mental institutions), squashed bugs, and a self-crucifying Jesus figure makes up the dizzying panorama of images to be found in this film.

Sugar mill in Morocco.

Based on a story by Frank Moorhouse, this is a satire on left intellectual manners in Sydney at the time. Moorhouse's story was in turn based on an actual event, a party thrown by members of the Sydney Push for visiting American poet Kenneth Rexroth.

More consciously experimental than Whitehead's other works, this film draws on a variety of sources, including sequences of London shot while Whitehead was at the Slade School of Art, glimpses of the singer and model Nico, and footage of the psychedelic underground nightclub UFO. There is also on-screen text, a voice critiquing it, and music from Pink Floyd, at this point still fronted by Syd Barrett--Whitehead's old painting friend from Cambridge. The track here, "Interstellar Overdrive", was recorded by Whitehead before the band signed to EMI and is much more exciting and beat-driven than the version they would later record for the label. There is no explicit link between the content of the film and the Cochrane Theatre, which is is named after, but the theatre was used as a venue for the Spontaneous Festival of Underground Films in 1966.

A middle-aged photographer is told to drop his baby oil commercial to make a skin flick.

An extended interview with the four American sailors who deserted in protest against the war in Vietnam in 1967. Filmed in Japan, the interviews reveal much about how they reached their decision to desert.

This film, like an action painting by Franz Kline, is a rising crescendo of abstract images. Rapid cuts of white forms on a black background supplemented by an equally abstract soundtrack give the impression of a bombardment in celestial space or on a battlefield where cannons fire on an unseen enemy in the night.

Sir Blur, a nearsighted fellow who mistakes something or someone for something else.

A woman alone in her home recalls the moments that led her to a crisis, in the city of Córdoba.

"A non-photographic hand scratched and colored film of shapes rapidly growing out of and shrinking into a central point. Color positive, negative and superimposition. Like cosmic and organic processes, and like the arising of images in the mind."–M.J.

This short documentary focuses on the Cree community of Trout Lake, Alberta and the traditional practices maintained there, including moose hunting, hide tanning, and tipi construction.

A commission by the public company responsible for the Italian motorways on the theme of road safety. Irony and drama come together in the narration of the Grande Raccordo Anulare (ring road) of Rome.

Vomit-filled short film by British filmmaker Nicholas Gosling.

A girl and a boy meet, and a sexploitation feature ensues.

"In this videotape Nauman attempted to maintain the contrapposto pose associated with classical and Renaissance sculpture while walking down a long, narrow corridor of his own design. In this position, one knee is bent, and weight is shifted to the opposing hip. Trying to walk while holding the pose of Donatello's David is absurd and comical, but there is also a menacing discomfort to Walk with Contrapposto. With both hands behind his head, Nauman resembles a prisoner; the video camera positioned high above him might be a surveillance device. He elected to show the corridor without the video at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1969, inviting viewers to traverse it. Nauman removed himself from the piece yet maintained a claustrophobic sense of control: "It's another way of limiting the situation so that someone else can be a performer, but he can do only what I want him to do," he said."

Oysters Are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations. Utter foolishness abounds in short skits that range from an employment interview with an applicant whose previous experience has left him physically uncontrollable, and an unsuspecting golfer who arrives for a first lesson, to scenes of mayhem with a hammock and a chinese lantern masquerading as an artificial kidney.

Exploration of breast hangups of the male ego using collage animation. –D. D.

Surf documentary

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It is dedicated to the filmmaker Stan Brakhage and was shot without a scenario and edited entirely in the camera.

Poetic documentary about this famous contemporary metal sculptor, showing him at work on one of the last pieces completed before his untimely death, some say from the three "D's," Drink, Drugs and Dissipation, but more accurately from the three "S's," Struggle, Starvation and Systemic disintegration. The viewer witnesses the step-by-step process of creation as the artist collects, cuts, shapes and welds cast-off materials into a sensitive human figure. The film concludes with a cine-poem in which Boise's works are elements in an overall abstract experience.

The gun was a vital part of life in colonial Williamsburg, and this docudrama demonstrates the expertise that went into the making of each weapon. The master gunsmith explains the principal parts of an early American rifle and demonstrates the gun's complex manufacturing process. The guns of the period were crude military weapons, but with revolution stirring, the colonists depended on their weapons to send a message to the British Crown.

Short film by G. Fioroni.

The dangers of drinking and driving are illustrated to a teenager returning from a beach party, where after having "one too many beach beers" he runs over a young mother and her child. This color short is not to be confused with the earlier black and white film, with same title, from 1961.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform live in Stockholm on 9th Jan 1969 in what would be one of their final performances before Hendrix sadly passed away.

Not too involved as far as plot goes. Basically people in the same office having sex with each other but not a whole lot is shown.

"NOTES is a series I started in 1968. NOTE TO ERIK was the second one completed but the footage goes back to 1966 when I saw the footage I loved it but didn't feel ready to deal with it. Seeing Sharon Moss again who had moved to NYC from Storrs, CT inspired me to return to this footage to make a note to a mutual friend ERIK KIVIAT. It took about 2 years for me to feel I could respond to the generosity of her performance and the images I had gathered and shaped in my camera. Sharon Moss and her cats play and dance naked in the snow." - Saul

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and six minutes long, and is named according to the chronological order in which it was made. The collection includes Numbers 1–5, 7, and 10.

An older, more experienced couple attempt to seduce a teenaged brother and sister.

An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen

Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968. This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.

Before the Blerta bus and Goodbye Pork Pie's yellow mini hit the road, some friends with more energy than cash dressed up as mad doctors and criminals, and began making films. This freeform short about running late is an early product of varied schemers who were key in the Kiwi film renaissance. Geoff Murphy plays the man in a hurry, and Bruno Lawrence is Dr Brunowski. Warning: final credits not to be trusted.

Nudnik awakens at a woman's home and bothers both her and her dog throughout the day.

Paris d-moll [Paris D Minor] is an impressionistic city symphony with everyday scenes from Paris, reminiscing of the works of Joris Ivens and Walter Ruttmann.

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film centers around a big party for gay men, where some guys talk about finding someone, while others, already coupled, mingle until the party ends.

An animated short based on the cartoons of Gerard Hoffnung.

Recurrent themes of violence, sex and TV commercials. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Astronut has an outer space newspaper fall to him. Its headlines warn that a meteor is falling to earth loaded with space people who can transform any earth people into zombies. He tells the police, who lock him up. Then the meteor arrives...

Salvador Dalí glares aghast at the camera, his head held high and lit dramatically from below. Halfway through the film, there is a sudden in-camera edit, and Dalí disappears from view; the rest of the film shows only the speckled wooden backdrop behind him.

"I would like to say something else in relation to the Automatic Free Form Film movement. The camera was constantly moving. Movement was used to elucidate space. This is a concept that I have continued to develop and have worked on in other films. I have a great interest in what happens to the edges of the camera frame when it moves. Automatic Free Form Film was done by working with shapes and specifically with the shapes of light and with the specific shapes of objects. When the camera moves, it changes the whole perspective of what we see." -BG

Ampaw's film explores the challenges of Black people in Germany’s housing sector, creatively documenting landlords’ responses to the question of whether they would rent to a Black tenant, which range from explicitly racist takes to well-meaning, problematic clichés.

A short film looking at the early married life of a young couple.